![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt that planted the seeds that led to her life as writer.īut McCullough took a circuitous route to becoming a best selling author. without having to live on the same continent." But as often happens in unhappy childhoods, McCullough found refuge in books. ![]() Her father was abusive, and her relationship with her mother was so bad that as an adult she moved to Norfolk Island, a remote Australian territory, because - as she once told an interviewer - she could be "close enough to keep an eye on her family. McCullough was best known for her novel The Thorn Birds, a huge hugely popular romance which has sold 30 million copies around the world, and has never gone out of print.īy her own account, McCullough had a lousy childhood. Colleen McCullough at home on Australia's remote Norfolk Island in 1990 - she told an interviewer she moved there to escape her difficult family.Īustralian writer Colleen McCullough died Thursday she was 77 years old. ![]()
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